Higginbotham v. State

The .petitioner was originally committed under and by virtue of an award of the court of domestic relations of Jefferson county, in which court petitioner pleaded guilty to a charge of desertion, etc. On May 16th there was entered in the said domestic relations court the following:

“May 16, 1924, on plea of guilty the court awards the following punishment: That the defendant Bert Higginbotham serve a term of twelve months at hard labor for the county.”

This order was signed, and then follows a conditional suspension. On May 21st petitioner sued out before the judge of the circuit court of…